ungenuine

Examples

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• After attempting to strain out the grounds with my above-shown ungenuine idea (do I even need to say that it didn't work?), I figured that ladling the coffee out and into my cup would just be easier.

  Blog text (7)

• Her apology felt ungenuine, as she hardly seemed to care about what she had done.

• Nelly is to come forth as ungenuine precisely because she was not allowed to develop her genuine self.

  Academic text (1992)

• The narrator robs the child of the hard-won first-person pronoun to reimpose on her an ungenuine third person to serve her needs as an adult and a writer.

  Academic text (1992)

• Many people criticized the advertisement for using ungenuine testimonials from actors pretending to be customers.

Synonyms

I

inauthentic

vsungenuine

6 6.6

Not real and not what it looks like

is about inner truth and honest feeling rather than outward appearance

U

unauthentic

vsungenuine

1 7.4

Not real or true

is broader, covering lack of honest feeling as well as simple falseness

N

non-authentic

vsungenuine

5.6

An object that is not real or original and is often a fake

is about inner honesty or feeling rather than origin or official source

Antonyms

G

genuine

156 3.2

Truly felt and not fake, for example a smile or apology

How Genuine

genuine

156 3.2

ungenuine

7.4

fake

833 1.8

counterfeit

80 6.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology